JPA Tutorial 3 - V1 Assignments

Questions

• Given our current solution, how would you add support for:
  • Return dates
  • Fines
• Review how we return a book. Does it seem strange that we retrieve the book, get the patron, update both of them and then merge the patron?
• How are the first two questions related?

Advanced: If you have spare time

Write a simple user interface. Your interface should support the following operations:

• Add a book
• Add a patron
• Checkout a book to a patron
• Return a book

Your choice on the type of user interface, text, servlet, swing, ...